Paid Sick Leave--now that's a novel idea

This past month, there was much outrage over the fact that General Electric, despite making $14.2 billion in profits, paid zero U.S. taxes in 2010. General Electric actually received tax credits of $3.2 billion from American taxpayers. At the same time that General Electric was not paying taxes, many undocumented immigrants, who are typically accused of taking advantage of the system while not contributing to it by many on the right, paid $11.2 billion in taxes. A new study by the I ...

putting out an ad like this. Go ahead, tell me he didn't know anything about it. Go ahead. Link ...

My husband and I had a rough patch and separated about a year ago and I started seeing another guy. I KNOW I shoudl have waited until divorced, I was wrong and I didn't. Problem is, now husband and I worked out our issues and the other guy will not leave me alone. I CONSTANTLY called, before I changed my number, contacts me online, writes me actual letters in the mail, telling me how much he loves me and will not give up on me. I have told him and told him that I wan ...

For the last week, I have been getting 4-5 calls daily. When I look them up, they are all political calls. Quit bothering me. I don't pick up any of them because they are all from 515 area code. GET A LIFE AND LEAVE ME ALONE. ...

I am an independent contractor MT who works from home. I am having a baby after the first of the year and was wondering if anyone else has had a baby while working from home as an MT and if so, how long did you take for maternity leave? I have asked my company what is common and have been told that it varies from person to person. They act like they do not want me taking the full 6-8 weeks maternity leave saying that the baby sleeps so much during that time and usually the ...

Out of 178 nations, the U.S. is one of three that does not offer paid maternity leave benefits, let alone paid leave for fathers, which more than 50 of these nations offer. Here’s how the U.S. stacks up to 14 other countries: ...

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http://rollingjubilee.org/ - "A bailout of the people, by the people." I love it. This is how it's done. ...

Hi all. Im currently pregnant with my first. I am an independent contractor for two medical practices. What would be an appropriate amount of time to take off you think? Im not sure how to bring it to their attention, as far as how big of a "heads up" they will need. Or what If I get so huge I cant even sit at my desk and work? lol. Bad thing is, I have no backup. I am the only one doing their transcription. I just dont know what to tell them, especially ...

Obama's speech today re. Hurricane Sandy: “We leave nobody behind.” Catch the significance of that, post Benghazi? ...

REBUTTING OBAMA’S ** ABOUT ENERGY President Obama’s discussion last night of “energy” was dishonest even by his standards. After briefly citing the nation’s energy gains under his administration, he turned to “climate change,” using a few quirky weather events as the springboard for advocating more federal regulation of the economy. Ben Cole of the Institute for Energy Research has offered a forceful and, I think, largely meritorious response to Obama& ...

Lois Lerner has been placed on administrative leave since she took the 5th yesterday....as if that's gonna stop the committee from subpoenaing her back to testify. Hope it's soon! The bad news is she will still collect her salary from us, which should be suspended until further investigation either finds her at fault or innocent of the goings on at the IRS. That sucks! ...

It's going to be very ugly. He's quite controlling, everything's fine when it goes his way. When it doesn't go his way, he gets angry, tells me to GTFO, but then when I make noises about leaving, then starts the alternate trying to make up or argue me into staying, and let's not forget blaming me for everything and how it's all MY fault. Never do we hear anything about his part in the mess. Typical narcissistic abuse pattern that ...

Don't let the door hit you on the way out...and be sure to turn out the lights in those freakin' multimillion dollar mansions that this country provided you, you ingrates. ...

"trademark brutality, wannabe emperor". As someone commented, you can't get good journalism like this in America. Sad but true. Link ...

Maybe he can join Palin in Alaska. In the above radio interview, Huckabee stated: “If the Republicans want to lose guys like me — and a whole bunch of still God-fearing Bible-believing people — go ahead and just abdicate on this issue, and while you’re at it, go ahead and say abortion doesn’t matter, either.” http://bluenationreview.com/mike-huckabee-will-leave-gop-dont-fight-gay-marriage-can-buy-ticket/ ...

Shouldn't be too hard to figure out who had the room, should it? Can't be workplace violence - maybe Muslim banquet violence? link ...

Chancellor Angela Merkel is setting aside €90m (£76m) in taxpayers’ money to create a fund which will pay migrants to withdraw their asylum applications and leave Germany voluntarily. The handouts will form part of a 16-point plan to speed up the removal of rejected asylum seekers, after Tunisian migrant Anis Amri murdered a Polish lorry driver, hijacked his vehicle and drove it into a Christmas market in Berlin while awaiting deportation. U.S. president Donald Trump told The Times tha ...

The security firm PacketSled announced on Sunday that it has put its CEO on administrative leave after he threatened to take out President-elect Donald Trump with a sniper rifle. PacketSled defines itself as "a disruptive security company focused on detection, response, and continuous monitoring of advanced threats." Ironically, some Trump supporters on Reddit caught PacketSled CEO Matt Harrigan making some fairly disturbing "advanced threats" of his own on the night of the election: "I ...

As historians begin to assess Obama’s record as president, there’s at least one legacy he’ll leave that will indeed be historic—but not in the way he would have hoped. Even as Democrats look favorably ahead to the presidential landscape of 2016, the strength in the Electoral College belies huge losses across much of the country. In fact, no president in modern times has presided over so disastrous a stretch for his party, at almost every level of politics. Legacies are often tough to ...

Debbie Washmyhair. What a gem. ...

No whup up. No showdown between them and police, just peaceful cooperation. Walker ordered to reinstate normal access policies sans locked doors, bolted windows and ID checks by Monday. Poor Scott. He is having a really bad week. ...

while I ran errands. I was gone maybe an hour and a half. When I returned, there were two little boys, one 11 and one 10 sitting with my daughter on the front porch. My son says he kept an eye on things and they stayed outside the whole time, but I'm freaking out and maybe I'm overreacting. I decided to check the text messages on my phone as I have let my daughter do a little texting to her friends and I find text messages from the 11yo telling her "loves her" a ...

Protesting the Dakota pipeline poisoning water supplies while leaving behind tons of garbage that will wash into the Missouri River and poision the water. How is that protecting the environment? ...

When you go to a pot luck and bring something, do you bring it home when you leave?I am from LI originally and I never saw anyone bring their food home. I originally lived on the east coast of FL and never saw people bring it home but I am on the west coast and it seems I am the only one that leaves the food for the host.Wondering if it is a regional thing. On the east coast most people are from NY or NJ and on this coast most of the people I know are from MI or IL. ...

Disgusting! Bunch of liberal pigs! ...

Wow, Obama really did let him down, but this is much, much worse. What are those dems thinking? ...

Is this just the flu? Fever, unbreakable, at a brain-boiling 101 for 48 hours. I took toxic amounts of alternating Tylenol and Advil, with tons of GatorAde and ice water, but could not break it. All day Saturday and Sunday, just burning up. I was seriously tempted to start making funeral arrangements. And cough, so bad that now my rib muscles are ripped, hurts every time I cough or sneeze. Body aches, everything hurts, head, shoulders, knees, elbows, back, hip ...

The attacks on president Obama are not something new from the republican party. President Clinton was subjected to the same rabid persecution from Whitewater to Monica Lewinsky, anything to dismantle his presidency. Thankfully he prevailed and is still respected for his accomplishments and his statemenship. In the case of Clinton vs Obama, republicans eventually caught Clinton in a compromising position with Monica thus revealing his weak points, sex and women. In the case of p ...

I have been reading all the bashing on here for Obama, Democrats, Republicans, Bush, etc. Frankly it is getting ridiculous. You see, reading these posts makes me think of what Congress does. Everybody is bickering and nobody is doing anything. The comparison is not meant to put anyone in particular down, it is just getting old, just like our government (including both parties). Frankly, I don't believe either party runs this country anymore. I beli ...

Paid Sick Leave--now that's a novel idea

Many people don't have it. - nm

I know, and that is why it is a good idea - "novel" was not sarcastic

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